Hundreds around Lake Minnetonka Still Don't Have Power

Nearly 30,000 customers remain without power after what Xcel Energy describes in media reports as the worst outage in state history. 

Xcel's outage map indicates hundreds of customers in cities around Lake Minnetonka have been without electrical service for three, four and even five days, following an intense round of summer storms at the end of last week. 

Xcel's update for Minnesota as of 8:30 p.m. Monday: 

Xcel Energy reports tonight that crews have completed restoring customers in the St. Cloud area who lost service due to Friday’s severe storms. An estimated 30,000 St. Cloud area customers were affected.

Xcel Energy crews, contractors and mutual aid responders continue restoring electricity service in the Twin Cities metro area in the wake of storms that knocked out power to 588,000 Minnesota customers.

As of 8:30 p.m. today, crews had restored power to more than 560,000 customers in the Twin Cities, St. Cloud and other parts of Minnesota. Work continues to restore the remaining 28,000 customers, located primarily in the west metro area. Xcel Energy expects to restore power to the vast majority of customers by noon Wednesday.